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Sunday, 9 May 2021
Lamenting the loss of Kalami, Scramoge and Scackleton, while celebrating the triumph of Hextable, Scraptoft and Corriecravie
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This blogpost started as an elegy for words from The Meaning of Liff which are no longer relevant. Consider Kalami : The ancient Eastern ar...
Saturday, 7 November 2020
Discovering the Meaning of "Aagosh"
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Do we have an English word for a mother’s shadow, for her presence, for the comfort derived from a mother physically being there? I don’t t...
Saturday, 16 February 2013
Umwelt
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Umwelt: this word deserves to be in more common use. It means "the world as it is experienced by a particular organism". It com...
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